Yale Graduate Students To Stage Walkout For Union

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April 2, 1995

NEW HAVEN, CONN. — In a move that could disrupt humanities and social science classes, hundreds of Yale University graduate students say they plan to walk off their jobs as teaching assistants Monday to press their demand for the right to unionize. University administrators, though, say they will never accept a graduate student union. The graduate teaching assistants lead weekly discussion sections for large lecture courses and teach introductory foreign language and freshman English classes. The 375 graduate students expected to strike will do so without any apparent support from faculty members, who will teach their classes as usual.